The Israeli writer-director Eran Riklis's film is, one supposes, intended as a modern reworking of the Old Testament story of Ahab, the King of Israel, who covets the vineyard of his neighbour, Naboth the Jezreelite. In this case, however, Ahab is Israel's defence minister. He has moved into a new house adjoining a lemon grove, a middle-aged Palestinian widow's only source of income, and insists that the trees be cut down for security reasons. She fights back, engaging in a hopeless battle, though unlike Ahab's wife, Jezebel, the minister's wife sympathises with the handsome widow. This is a highly effective, if somewhat schematic depiction of the daily insults, injuries and injustices visited by Israel and its agents upon the Palestinians, and it ends on a pessimistic note. As the widow's lawyer says to the press: 'If this were a Hollywood movie, there would be a happy ending.'